Trumps Presidency 2025

[HighOPS]

6 hours ago, The Ronz said:

Trump already did that.

Fourteenth Amendment  Equal Protection and Other Rights

Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Yeah, I thought the Dems should have had the vote to remove the disability in the House and had it fail just to muddy things more. But, Dems seem to worry more about voter perception than they should. 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Deleterious]

Seems like a good use of resources.

U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland

[VegasTiger]

5 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Seems like a good use of resources.

U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland

You know them Greenies and their new deals.

[HighOPS]

9 hours ago, VegasTiger said:

You know them Greenies and their new deals.

Embedded Spy: How's it going?

Asset #1: About the same.

Asset #2: Yep.

[pfife]

48 minutes ago, HighOPS said:

Embedded Spy: How's it going?

Asset #1: About the same.

Asset #2: Yep.

Thats like 3/4 of the islands population in that scenario 

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Seems like a good use of resources.

U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland

So, stop spying on Russia and start spying on Greenland? Do I have that straight?

That sounds on brand.

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Seems like a good use of resources.

U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland

From the story:

Asked by NBC News in an interview that aired Sunday whether he would rule out seizing Greenland by force, Trump demurred. 

“I don’t rule it out,” he said. “I don’t say I’m going to do it, but I don’t rule out anything. No, not there. We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people, which we’ll take care of, and we’ll cherish them, and all of that. But we need that for international security.”

That one part, that dismissive “all of that”? That’s the tell that he doesn’t give a flying **** about any idiot who would live in Greenland. He’d as soon deport them to Uzbekistan than even look at them.

[Tiger337]

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

From the story:

 

Asked by NBC News in an interview that aired Sunday whether he would rule out seizing Greenland by force, Trump demurred. 

“I don’t rule it out,” he said. “I don’t say I’m going to do it, but I don’t rule out anything. No, not there. We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people, which we’ll take care of, and we’ll cherish them, and all of that. But we need that for international security.”

That one part, that dismissive “all of that”? That’s the tell that he doesn’t give a flying **** about any idiot who would live in Greenland. He’d as soon deport them to Uzbekistan than even look at them.

Figuring out what Trump's language means is a stretch.  He has the vocabulary of a 10 year old.  Your concluson is correct though!

[chasfh]

8 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Figuring out what Trump's language means is a stretch.  He has the vocabulary of a 10 year old.  Your concluson is correct though!

Trump is not immune from speech content analysis. He’s not completely random and unknowable. If he were, he could not be effectively played and manipulated by foreign governments, since they would never be sure how to deal with him. But they know how, and in a very exact way.

[Motown Bombers]

Trump is a master at manipulating people but is easily manipulated himself.  

[CMRivdogs]

Evidently Trump got his Alcatraz idea from watching reruns of the Birdman From Alcatraz on the local PBS station in Palm Beach. Maybe they should start rerunning Mr Smith goes to Washington a few late Saturday nights.  Or possibly All the King's Men

[gehringer_2]

43 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Trump is a master at manipulating people but is easily manipulated himself.  

During a spell when I was a fish out of water engineer working in what was basically a sales organization, I saw that weird dynamic: people who could charm their own mark but were also susceptible to being charmed themselves. Counter-intuitive (at least to me) but the phenomenon appears real.

[Tiger337]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

Trump is not immune from speech content analysis. He’s not completely random and unknowable. If he were, he could not be effectively played and manipulated by foreign governments, since they would never be sure how to deal with him. But they know how, and in a very exact way.

They can manipulate him because he's an idiot and also because he loves to be praised.  

Edited Wednesday at 03:38 PM by Tiger337

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

Trump is a master at manipulating people but is easily manipulated himself.  

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

[Motown Bombers]

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

Evidently Trump got his Alcatraz idea from watching reruns of the Birdman From Alcatraz on the local PBS station in Palm Beach. Maybe they should start rerunning Mr Smith goes to Washington a few late Saturday nights.  Or possibly All the King's Men

Maybe they should defund PBS after all. 

[CMRivdogs]

51 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Maybe they should defund PBS after all. 

That will mean even more old movies and fewer programs like Nature and Independent Lens.

If you want that great. 
 

(I realize you were tongue in cheek) but take a look at what your local station does behind the scenes from things like early learning to Michigan Learning Channel to even PBS Books (PBS Books is online)

Most of this doesn’t receive national funding directly but from other avenues that do so

[CMRivdogs]

Defunding public media, including things like VOA to promote the new Ministry of Propaganda

 

[romad1]

GOP senators fear Marjorie Taylor Greene will cost them Georgia Senate race

PLEASE!!!!  If we are going to impeach him we need 60 seats and she will lose this one badly for Georgia GOP. 

[oblong]

don't they need 67?  It's 2/3.

 

And frankly, generally speaking, I think Congress would be wise to set up a precedent where impeachment/removal is a real threat.  That goes for R's and D's.  The executive branch needs to be curtailed back to where it was before FDR.  It was, excluding LIncoln, a smaller scale office.  Let's get back to that.

 

[CMRivdogs]

The REAL reason public media funding is being cut. Somebody has a huge grudge

 

[romad1]

This is so f'n stupid. How would you react if you were a "replacement level" moderate Swedish citizen? 

https://www.newsweek.com/european-city-reacts-trumps-dei-ultimatum-2068974

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An official in Sweden has condemned a U.S. demand that his city apply the Trump administration's rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies for contractors dealing with the American embassy.

Jan Valeskog, Stockholm's planning vice mayor, described as "bizarre" a letter by the U.S. Embassy in Sweden calling for the capital city's authorities to formally agree to cease diversity initiatives.

Valeskog told Newsweek on Wednesday that he expected the U.S. Embassy to withdraw the demand but that the city's good relationship with the mission would continue.

 

[CMRivdogs]

I think we should rebrand the current Republicans as the new KnowNothing Party...

From A Lincoln in 1855 to Joshua Speed

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I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.” When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.

 

[chasfh]

4 hours ago, romad1 said:

This is so f'n stupid. How would you react if you were a "replacement level" moderate Swedish citizen? 

https://www.newsweek.com/european-city-reacts-trumps-dei-ultimatum-2068974

 

I think one of the things we may be learning is that the more people say "no", the more these MAGAts will back down.

[chasfh]

30 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

I think we should rebrand the current Republicans as the new KnowNothing Party...

From A Lincoln in 1855 to Joshua Speed

 

"Hypocracy"!

I love that!

This country has definitely become a hypocracy!